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JUDGE RULES CLEVELAND MUST PAY $13.2 MILLION JUDGMENT FOR MAN’S WRONGFUL CONVICTION CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMON Pleas Judge Robert McClelland ruled last week in a case that should have far-reaching impact on how Cleveland handles payment and obligations for civil judgments in cases where they’ve indemnified their police officers and employees.

The full extent of the issue was covered at length in a Scene investigation earlier this year (see: clevescene.com/bankruptcy) but here are the nuts and bolts: After two juries awarded $18.7 million in civil judgments in two cases against Cleveland police officers — Randy Ayers, for a wrongful conviction for which he spent more than 11 years in prison; and Kenny Smith, who was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in 2012 — the city of Cleveland attempted a novel legal maneuver.

Cleveland indemnifies its officers as long as their actions are taken in good faith and in the process of their duties.

That means that any personal financial repercussions from those actions are covered by the city of Cleveland. At least, that had been

Smith

the case.

Staring down the nearly $20-million sum as a result of these two cases, the city this time instead hired attorneys to work with the officers to declare bankruptcy. The personal judgments were listed among the debts without indicating that those judgments were eligible for indemnification. Their argument: the officers are responsible, and since they didn’t indicate they were eligible for indemnification for that sum, and since they have no assets, the judgments sitting against them disappear with the

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bankruptcy, leaving Ayers and Smith’s families no way to collect.

The Ayers portion of the story came to a good conclusion yesterday. The legal battle wormed its way to the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas docket. Judge McClelland, who admitted in the decision that this amounted to a judicial “first look” at the legality of a such a maneuver, ruled in no certain terms that Cleveland is responsible for the $13.2-million judgment.

That was for a couple of reasons (you can read his full decision at

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clevescene.com) but he answered Cleveland’s main contention with this: “The Court agrees that it makes no sense to require the employee to first pay judgment and then seek reimbursement.

As practical matter, that is not how indemnification agreements work. Also, if one were to adopt that reasoning, plaintiffs would seldom be made whole. The employees, named as defendants, would not be expected to have the resources to satisfy large judgments, such as the one here.”

In other words, Ayers has every expectation and legal standing to collect the judgment from the city of Cleveland, especially since it represented the officers vigorously

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throughout the trials, even though the judgment was personally against former Cleveland detective Denise Kovach. The fact she or her lawyer (hired and paid for by the city) didn’t indicate the debt could be indemnified doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have.

Judge McClelland also added statutory interest, bringing the total to $14.6 million.

‘CLEVELAND HUSTLES’ WILL RETURN ‘Cleveland Hustles’ investor Alan Glazen announced at the show’s season one finale that a second season of the unscripted CNBC reality series was already

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in the works. He told Scene in a follow up conversation that he would executive produce the second season, which would be an independent production, “with the blessing of both CNBC and LeBron.”

“We are doing it all over again in 2017,” he said on Facebook.

“Another million dollars and five funded businesses in another Cleveland neighborhood! Thanks to Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Inc. and COSE for being our first partners in Cleveland Hustles: CHAIN REACTION!!!!!”

The show’s investors have hinted before that they’ve been in discussions about selecting another neighborhood in which to invest.

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It’ll be interesting to see the route they take.

The Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, and its Gordon Square epicenter, was portrayed on the show as a neighborhood in desperate need of revitalization, one ravaged by the loss of manufacturing jobs. And though that narrative is partly true, what’s also true is that it’s one of the hippest, most popular destination neighborhoods in town. Just take a look at the real estate. (Lakeview Townhomes starting at $364,900).

Another likely truth: Bagels and bars and boutique leather shops wouldn’t do well in someplace like Kinsman, where, among other things, entrepreneurship is limited by residents’ disposable income.

For better or worse, the current ‘Cleveland Hustles’ businesses are lifestyle amenities preferred by white, college-educated millennials from the suburbs.

It’s nonetheless great to see the investment and the interest generated by the show. Still, it would be cool to see ‘Cleveland Hustles’ investors taking on a truly impoverished neighborhood in their next effort, one with more basic commercial needs: a grocery store with fresh and reasonably priced produce, for example.

(We know that this isn’t, strictly speaking, the show’s aim, but it seemed worth pointing out.)

The partnership with Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and their battery of community developers, ought to be a fruitful one. They should help the investors select an area where entrepreneurship can thrive.

“Cleveland Neighborhood Progress will coordinate a competition for selecting the next neighborhood and we will also assist in recruitment of entrepreneurs,” wrote Jeff Kipp, CNP’s Director of Neighborhood Marketing, in an email to Scene.

“CNP does not have a preference on which neighborhood is selected; but our focus will be on strengthening a local retail/business district in the city. We will stay engaged throughout the production to ensure city/neighborhood authenticity is showcased.”

And not to be forgotten: While LeBron is spurring investment in Cleveland neighborhoods with the show, he’s also continuing to invest

in the youth of Akron through his Family Foundation. He announced last week that he was establishing the “I Promise Institute” on the University of Akron Campus.

The Institute is designed as a resource center for the students receiving free college tuition from James’ foundation.

“When we first started this program, I wanted my kids to graduate from high school. But the more we grow as a Foundation, the more we find can be done to give our kids the best chance to be successful,” LeBron James said in a LJFF statement. “We don’t just want our kids to get to college, we want them to graduate from college. And we want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help them do that.”

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DEVIL IN THE DETAILS Thousands of absentee and provisional ballots will be tossed out in Ohio next month, because that’s the law. Here’s why, and how to avoid having yours be one of them

By Eric Sandy GUNTHER LAHM ARRIVED IN the U.S. in 1950 at the end of his parents’ protracted escape from Yugoslavia. He was 2 at the time. As refugees, the family sought a new life, one that would grant young Gunther and his seven siblings the democratic spirit of certain human rights and freedoms.

“The right to vote, for us, is a big deal,” he says today. That’s why, lately, with the presidential election looming, Gunther is pretty fired up.

For the 2014 midterm election, he and his wife, Linda, used absentee ballots to cast their vote. (The couple lives in Franklin County.) Gunther says that everything about the process seemed fine.

This past spring, they got a phone call from an attorney in Cleveland. His name was Subodh Chandra, he said, and he had been mounting a legal battle against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine.

Thousands of legitimate votes weren’t counted in November 2014, and the Lahms were caught up in that group. Each vote was tossed due to what could be called clerical

errors on the part of the voters.

Gunther, an attorney himself, couldn’t believe it.

His and his wife’s ballots were properly filled out, but they had been placed in the wrong envelopes.

(In Ohio, you first must request an absentee ballot. You’ll then receive the ballot in the mail, along with a specific envelope to be sent back to the board of elections. You mail the ballot and its envelope back to the board before Election Day.) Gunther’s ballot had ended up in Linda’s envelope, and vice versa.

Linda had realized this, however — after the envelopes were sealed — and wrote in the necessary changes on each envelope. She and Gunther initialed the edits and dropped their ballots in the mailbox. Done.

Here’s the thing: Linda had forgotten to fill in their birthdates.

The Lahms had no idea that this had happened until Chandra came calling this year. “The Franklin County Board of Elections tossed our votes in the trash can, and that got me pretty fired up,” Gunther tells Scene.

He says the board of elections

never told the couple that their votes hadn’t been counted.

By the Nov. 5 deadline, more than 1 million absentee ballots will have been requested in Ohio for use in the Nov. 8 election. That’s a sizable portion of the approximately 7.7 million registered voters in Ohio. Husted and his office have actively encouraged the absentee vote. (“So you can vote anywhere with confidence,” Husted says in one 30-second ad that’s been on airwaves recently.) But the simple mistake that erased the Lahms’ votes will surely happen again, along with any number of other ballots for that and other simple errors. Recent court rulings have re-codified the many granular policies that allow county boards of elections to toss absentee ballots in the trash.

After the 2014 mishap, Gunther and Linda say they’re skipping the snail-mail absentee thing this year; they’ll be voting in person.

The ubiquity and scope of the Buckeye State’s controversial voting policies are well known.

The Lahms, of course, aren’t alone.

Take Kenneth Boggs, for example: He

voted absentee in 2014 and transposed his birth month with the month in which he filled out the ballot, writing “10” instead of “6” in the birthdate field. Everything else on his ballot was fine, but the board did not count his vote. “I was furious when I found out that my vote was thrown out just because I made a very minor and obvious mistake,” he wrote in a signed affidavit.

And there’s Elizabeth Coffman: She wrote her current address in the “former address” slot on her provisional ballot form. Her vote did not count in the 2014 midterm election, though she wouldn’t learn that until a year and a half later. “I am angry my ballot was thrown out because of this address issue,” she wrote.

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FEATURE traced most visibly back to a 2010 voting rights consent decree, which itself originates in a 2006 lawsuit ďŹ led by a number of advocacy coalitions for Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeless population. The lawsuit targeted Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stringent voter identiďŹ cation statutes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially those that were â&#x20AC;&#x153;confusing, vague, and impossible to applyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, after years of litigation, the resulting consent decree standardized how boards of elections operated on election day across all 88 Ohio counties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These voters will not be deprived of their fundamental right to vote because of differing interpretations and applications of the Provisional Ballot Laws by Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 88 Boards of Elections,â&#x20AC;? the decree reads. (The consent decree is in effect through Dec. 31, 2016.)

State lawmakers intervened, however.

Ohio Senate Bills 205 and 216 were enacted in 2014, essentially reversing principal elements of the consent decree and allowing county boards of election to call their own shots and decide how and why certain ballot errors would disqualify a vote.

Litigation on that front continues to this day; the bills under scrutiny intersect with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a piece of law in which legislators continue to ďŹ nd gray area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[A]ny alleged infringement of the right of citizens to vote must be carefully and meticulously scrutinized,â&#x20AC;? according to a landmark 1964 court ruling, a component of the Voting Rights Act. As the bills transformed into law, the ACLU of Ohio laid out the case: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most concerning aspects of SB 205 is the addition of the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;incompleteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in reference to a voterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absentee ballot identiďŹ cation envelope. Giving discretion to a few election ofďŹ cials to deďŹ ne exactly what this word means is likely to result in more ballots not being counted.

Additionally, this language is overly broad language and could violate federal law.â&#x20AC;?

Opponents of the new laws draw comparisons to the sort of literacy tests that ďŹ&#x201A;ourished in earlier periods of American history. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned those policies. Husted and the state insist that the laws are meant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.â&#x20AC;?

That latter issue has become a daily topic of discussion, led by Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsupported, egregiously dangerous and roundly debunked claims that the election

is rigged. Husted announced last year, for example, after an extensive investigation, his ofďŹ ce found that 145 non-residents voted in the state in 2014. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s .002 percent of the total voting population. This week during an interview on CNN, Husted, himself a Trump supporter, countered Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dubious garbage by saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can reassure Donald Trump, I am in charge of elections in Ohio and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be rigged.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bipartisan, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transparent, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no justiďŹ cation for concern about widespread voter fraud.â&#x20AC;?

But many are concerned that a disjointed set of standards across the state could lead to problems with provisional and absentee ballots.

With every county working with a different set of policies, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difďŹ cult to keep track of which Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s need to be crossed and which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Gunther and Linda Lahm forgot to add their birthdates. In Franklin County, that killed their votes. In Wyandot County, however, that would have been ďŹ ne. In Cuyahoga County, â&#x20AC;&#x153;maybe,â&#x20AC;? according to documents ďŹ led in federal court.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one iteration of the law.

Andrea Margaret, a former Clevelander whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since moved out of state, says that Ohio denied her absentee ballot, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I got married and changed my name, despite letting me vote in the primary with the same issue.â&#x20AC;? The countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s denial of her ballot arrived in the mail on the last day of registration in Ohio.

The idiosyncrasies in Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies are numerous, and they affect provisional ballots too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a type of ballot issued to a voter at a polling station that is used when a voterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t jibe with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the database. On Election day, if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t brought a proper form of ID, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be given a provisional ballot.

It requires you to ďŹ ll out all your information by hand. And, like the absentee ballot issue, there are countyby-county differences in how your ballot is deemed to be complete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example,â&#x20AC;? Chandra says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you inadvertently leave your zip code off of your form in Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Stark, or Lucas counties, you will be disenfranchised even if the board has no doubt regarding your eligibility, while Meigs and other small counties will count that same vote. How is that remotely fair?â&#x20AC;?

Thing is, the state knows all of that.

Ohio deputy assistant secretary of state Matthew Damschroder, the director of elections in the state, said in March 2016 federal court testimony that, yes, the lack of uniform policies

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across Ohio’s 88 counties troubles him.

“Would you agree that it is a serious problem if voters in different counties in the state will have their ballot counted or not counted based on the issue of whether they fill their names in cursive or not?” he was asked during a bench trial in federal court. “Yes,” Damschroder replied.

“Would you agree, then, that these voters are being subjected to different standards in the application of Senate Bills 205 and 216?”

“Yes.” And that’s the origin story of the litigation born in 2006 and still

coursing through the federal court system (NEOCH et al. v. Husted et al., for those playing along at home). Reports to the office of the secretary of state show that larger counties — those like Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton, with greater African-American populations — are enforcing the voter identification nuances of SB 205 and SB 206, while smaller and more rural counties are not (as thoroughly).

It’s a partisan chess game, sure (see also “gerrymandering”), but the implications run deep both on philosophical grounds and in literal terms during an election when the

state expects a record number of absentee and provisional ballots to be cast.

That’s why, with the election looming, NEOCH and other plaintiffs have continued to fight. In June 2016, judge Algenon Marbley ruled against those idiosyncratic absentee and provisional ballot policies. In short order, though, the state appealed. The case was kicked up to a three-judge panel on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which offered a multi-pronged ruling that agreed with some of Marbley’s ruling (“about 75 percent,” Chandra says), but largely left the

quirky county-by-county absentee and provisional ballot policies intact — despite those policies directly contradicting the 2010 consent decree that remains in effect.

NEOCH asked for a full hearing on the case. The circuit court denied their motion.

“While we are studying our Supreme Court options,” Chandra says, “hopes for affected Ohio voters in this close presidential election may well be lost. Voters may never learn that their ballots were not counted.”

NEOCH alleges that many state voting laws are enacted

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specifically to discriminate against minority populations — mostly black populations and those including wide swaths of homeless and disabled voters in large cities like Cleveland. But that invisible cause is also treated as a defense of the laws.

When the state faces up to a struggle to reform voting rights, leaders tend once again to specifically target minority populations: Why cater to those people?

“Government doesn’t need to spoon-feed voting materials to voters,” State Rep. Mike Dovilla said in 2014. (Here’s a quick thought experiment: Did you, a Scene reader and a likely Cuyahoga County voter, know that you couldn’t use cursive — or anything resembling cursive — on your absentee or provisional ballot? Blame the government or blame the media, but check your handwriting when you choose to vote. What is “cursive,” anyway? The state has no answer.)

During committee hearings for SB 205, State Rep. Matt Huffman asked, “Should we really be making it easier for those people who take the bus after church on Sunday to vote?” Remember that black voters have famously adopted “Souls to the Polls” campaigns in previous elections — bus rides that pick up churchgoers and take them to election locations.

That sort of stuff echoes the words of Doug Preisse, former chair of the Franklin County Republican Party and a member of the county board of elections, who said in 2012, “I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter turnout machine.”

Lines like that — public acknowledgments of how elections are run — get a lot of press. Four years later, the statement is sadly still relevant enough to revisit.

As Ohio goes, so goes the nation, according to your preferred talking head. And even if the Buckeye State isn’t predicted to be quite the bellwether it’s usually been in this election, the enflamed racial and ethnic language bandied about during the campaigns has lent cause to increased scrutiny and voter engagement.

Kenneth Payton, a service worker with NEOCH, is driving around the near-westside on Oct. 12, the first day of early voting in Ohio and, by

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any account, a beautiful fall day on the North Shore. He’s picking up registered voters at shelters around Cleveland. This is the first time he’s done this for a presidential election.

As he sees it, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless helped register these folks; they probably could use a ride to the polls.

He arrives at St. Malachi on West 25th, a church that offers shelter and a community lunch to those in need.

It’s about noon and, beneath a warm sun, Abner Rondon explains that this election is more frustrating than most. “With these two candidates, I feel like they’re holding a gun to my head, and all I can say is, ‘Harambe, I’m coming,’” he says. Rondon is 32, and he says he’s not quite ready to vote today. He says he still needs to sleep on his decision a bit.

Payton ends up landing only one voter from this church, a guy named Daniel “Shark” Cruz, a Latino voter from Southern California. Shark has lived in Ohio for a few months; he came here to be a part of Northeast Ohio’s budding nonprofit scene. He’s a Jill Stein supporter.

“I’m ready,” Shark says. “It’s time for a third party to take the lead.”

He says he’s glad that Payton caught him before work; it’s not always an easy process, juggling the mountain of life responsibilities and getting down to East 30th and Euclid to vote. (Shark is later seen running down Euclid, just barely catching an eastbound bus before it departs.)

As federal district court judge Algenon Marbley summed up the case in June 2016, “Plaintiffs further contend that the challenged laws violate Section 2 of the [Voting Rights Act] because they will have a disproportionate impact on AfricanAmerican and Latino voters, and that the Ohio legislature in fact intended as much.”

Another thing: Eight to 10 percent of the NEOCH homeless population is “absolutely illiterate,” according to court filings. And with the known problems associated with filling out an absentee ballot, many volunteers will be in the driver’s seat these next few weeks, taking registered voters to the polls. (Poll workers are allowed to help fill out a voter’s form if he or she is blind, disabled or illiterate.)

Largely, though, the fight playing out in the courts has two sides: offering Ohioans more or fewer opportunities to vote.

Golden Week, which no longer exists in Ohio, was a window of time at the start of the early-voting period wherein residents could both register to vote and actually vote on the

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FEATURE same day and at the same place. It’s become a contentious issue over the years, and just this past August the Supreme Court ruled that Ohio’s state leaders were within their rights to eliminate Golden Week.

Conversely, another federal court ruling that same month barred North Carolina from implementing certain elements of its voter identification law — its analog to those aforementioned Senate bills in Ohio — that would have mandated the use of government-issued photo ID cards at polling places. The court specifically called out the “racial discrimination” inherent in that law.

The state is “making it easier to vote and harder to cheat,” Husted says of his work. Repeatedly.

The “harder to cheat” clause is noteworthy, because that implies voter fraud, the bogeyman that paves the path toward voter identification crackdowns.

Again, though, as the state knows, there is at most an almost imperceptible level of “voter fraud” in Ohio elections. Damschroder said

as much during his March 2016 testimony: When asked whether the possibility of voter fraud was a justification for the “five fields requirement,” he agreed that it was not. That requirement refers to “name, residence address, date of birth, signature, and some form of ID,” the sort of thing that tripped up thousands of Ohioans two years ago and that will trip up thousands this year.

(On the national front, a Loyola professor tracked and investigated allegations of voter fraud from 2000 to 2014. Thirty-one credible instances were found out of more than 1 billion ballots cast.)

Absent a lawsuit of the magnitude of NEOCH et al. v.

Husted et al., there’s no guarantee that the issue would have been publicized.

“They had ways to contact us, because obviously we were registered voters,” Gunther says of the Franklin County Board of Elections in 2014.

“They didn’t make any efforts to contact us — never contacted us.

That’s what really cranked me up.

Even if they were going to question this ballot, which is their right to

do — but not to contact us, having the way Ohio and its 88 counties agreed that that would be done have been handling elections lately. statewide, When Chandra and his law firm P ho t o by E r ic San came calling, they answered the that dy request for more voices to fuel this discussion. The couple went so far as to say that they’d fly home from their winter home in Florida to testify. It’s important to them.

“We should have more polling places,” Gunther says. “We should make it easier.

We should want everybody in America to vote, and however that turns out is how it turns out.”

Absentee ballots are one avenue toward that idea, and registered got voters can still request an me fired absentee ballot through Nov. 5. up pretty good.

It’s a convenient alternative to the “America was kind enough to open sometimes-very-long lines at polling its doors to us and allow us to come places around the state on election here,” he says. “We became proud day. Just don’t use cursive.

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Earlier this year, Music Box Supper Club launched Cleveland Stories Dinner Party, a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling.

The series aims to help raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center.

The club’s owners consider the Cleveland History Center to be “one of the most interesting museums in Cleveland” and “an unknown gem that Clevelanders should know more about and support.” The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaire’s Row.” Each week features a guest speaker and a custom prix fixe menu — a full three-course meal for only $20.

The popular series resumes tonight at 7:30 with a lecture on Cleveland’s Startling Political Evolution. John Grabowski, a professor of applied history at Case, will lead the discussion. The three-course dinner will include Senate Bean Soup, chicken Washington and apple pie.

(Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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Drawing Power Twice every month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop.

Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in a very relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, including tonight. At the end of each Drink & Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives.

Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

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Hoppy Hour The Cleveland Botanical Garden offers an educational take on the beer tasting with its weekly Hoppy Hour, which takes place today from

The annual autumn celebration Maize returns to the East Bank of the Flats. See: Friday.

5:30 to 8:30. You can sample pale ales, dark lagers and other cool craft brews while discussing hops and horticulture with staff from the Botanical Garden and experts from Great Lakes Brewing Company, Beverage Distributors and Butcher and the Brewer. Non-member tickets are just $5 after 5 tonight. The event is free for members. Twelveounce beers are $4, while a tasting flight is $6. Also, there will be seasonal dinner specials from the Garden Cafe, fire pits, lawn games and flashlight garden tours. (Niesel) 11030 East Blvd., 216-721-1600, cbgarden.org.

MUSIC

Vijay Iyer and International Contemporary Ensemble A 2013 MacArthur Fellow and DownBeat magazine’s 2014 Pianist of the Year, Vijay Iyer, a composer and improviser who has a huge body of work in jazz and classical music, will perform with International Contemporary Ensemble tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He wrote a long piece for ICE, “Radhe Radhe — Rites of Holi,” that he’ll perform tonight. The museum will also screen the Prashant Bhargava fi lm for which the piece was written and

Iyer and ICE will perform while it screens. The program, which ties into the museum’s current major exhibit, Art and Stories from Mughal India, will also feature a new arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” played by ICE. Tickets are $53 to $69, or $48 to $62 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Think & Drink with the Extinct Billed as “one of the brainiest happy hours in Cleveland,” Think & Drink with the Extinct, a gathering at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, represents more than just an opportunity to get wasted. Rather, patrons actually learn something as the museum’s staff members give interactive demonstrations and talk about topics such as the winter solstice and entomology. Various local breweries will provide the libations each week; tonight the brews come from Thirsty Dog. The event takes place from 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 and include museum admission. But museum members and Case students get in for free. (Niesel) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh.org.

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Between the Lines The Euclid Tavern’s lecture series Between the Lines brings literary authors into the bar for casual readings of their works. Tonight’s event, which takes place at 7 p.m., features Nin Andrews and Karen Schubert. The author of six chapbooks and six full-length poetry collections, writer Andrews also serves as the editor of Someone Wants to Steal My Name, a book of translations from the Belgian poet Henri Michaux. BOA Editions published her book Why God Is a Woman in 2015. Karen Schubert has published poetry chapbooks, poems, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews. She holds an MFA from the NEOMFA, where she served as editor of Whiskey Island Magazine.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, happydogcleveland.com.

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fiery First Piano Concerto at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra. The concert also features Brahms’s Fourth Symphony.

Rose Breckenridge, lecturer and administrator for Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups, gives a pre-concert talk an hour before the concert begins. Performances

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coordinating specialist at Cowan’s Auctions. Spaces’ Art Auction 101 seminar takes place from 6 to 7:30 tonight. During her talk, Corrigan will discuss how auctions work and what to look for when collecting. Designed for both experienced collectors and those completely new to auctions and fine art, this presentation offers information for anyone interested in art auctions. After this free, public presentation, you’ll be ready to bid with confidence. Cowan’s Auctions was founded by Wes Cowan of PBS’ Antique Roadshow and History Detectives. Cowan’s has three offices in the U.S., and has been in operation for 20 years. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.

connection between the audience, the performances and the performers’ journey through space. Projection technology transports fans to far-off planets throughout the galaxy and transforms the arena into a swirling space-scape. The circus performs at 7 tonight at the Q, where shows are scheduled through Sunday. Tickets

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Maize Now in its second year, Scene’s annual MAIZE: Autumn at the Flats has expanded into a three-day festival. It promises to “bring the feeling, joy and activities of fall to Cleveland.” Food options include chili beans, corn bread, soup, kettle corn, apple cider mimosas, mulled cider and pumpkin spice lattes. There will also be activities such as a hay bale maze, train rides through the Flats, costume making and pumpkin carving. The event takes place from 4 to 11 p.m. today, from noon to 11 p.m. tomorrow and from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday. It’s free. (Niesel) scenefestival.com.

COMEDY

Piff the Magic Dragon With his wacky dragon suit and Chihuahua sidekick Mr. Piffles, standup comedian Piff the Magic Dragon left a lasting impression when he was on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent. As a result, he’s become a national (and even international) sensation. He’s performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York, at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and at the Sydney Opera House. He also just completed a residency at the Cosmopolitan, one of the swankiest hotels on the Las Vegas strip. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets are $23 to $28. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus dates back decades, but the circus still strives to regularly reinvent itself. This year’s incarnation will feature thrill skaters in addition to acrobats, animals and clowns. The “immersive atmosphere” created by lighting technology and video projection will combine with a “thrilling storyline.” Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson and “Circus Star Seeker” Paulo battle evil forces such as the Intergalactic Circus Queen Tatiana. The technology in this year’s incarnation, Out Of This World, provides a multisensory experience, and video screen production enhancements deepen the

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promises to feature “non-stop fun” that includes a costume contest, a chili cook-off, bonfires and apple bobbing, The Ohio Burn Unit and bands such as Vibe & Direct, John Welton & the Awakening, JiMiller Band, Ball-n-Chain, Wanyama and the John Mullins Band will perform.

Admission is $60 for Friday through Sunday, or $45 for Saturday through Sunday. There is no extra charge for camping. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

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New Exhibitions For its latest exhibitions, 2731 Prospect hosts solo shows for three separate artists in the gallery. 2731 Prospect’s new fall exhibitions include Kate Budd’s Artifact/ Amulet, Elizabeth Emery’s Seen Not Heard and Endi Poskovic’s Dream: New Print Works. All three exhibitions open with a reception from 6 to 9 tonight. Over the next few months, all three artists will discuss their exhibition and creative process during free, public gallery talks. Endi Poskovic’s turn comes tomorrow at noon. The three exhibitions remain on view through Dec. 3. (Usmani) 2731 Prospect Ave., 888-273-1881, 2731prospect.com.

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start at $20. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, theqarena.com.

MUSIC

Yuja Wang plays Bartok Praised for her “impressive virtuosity and poise,” pianist Yuja Wang possesses a “superhuman keyboard technique with artistic eloquence that is second to none.”

Tonight at 7:30, she returns to Cleveland to perform Bartók’s

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continue through Saturday. Tickets start at $29. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Gory at the Quarry Nelson Ledges Quarry Park’s annual Halloween bash, Gory at the Quarry,

Third Fridays Many of the galleries at 78th Street Studios debut their new fall exhibitions tonight, during the monthly Third Friday celebration.

Enter via the doors off 78th Street, accessing renowned local sculptor Giancarlo Calicchia’s exhibition at Tregoning & Company, and Derek Hess Gallery’s Acting Out exhibition.

Don’t forget Forum Artspace, which hosts John W. Carlson and Shari Wilkins’ Destruction of Form 2.

Navigating your way through Cleveland’s art maze, stop by ARTneo and the many other spaces on the lower “ramp” level. On the first floor, Cleveland West Art League presents Rich Cihlar and Bob Peck’s Don’t Panic 2. Next door, Cihlar’s gallery E11even2 (which he co-owns) continues its Seinfeldthemed exhibition. The second floor includes two new exhibitions presented by Hedge Gallery (Christopher Kier’s Architectonic and Carmen Romaine’s Fabric of Time). Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery continues its Cinema 07. Finally, the third floor features the closing reception for PopEye Gallery’s Melt (Art) Challenge, celebrating Melt Bar & Grilled’s 10-year anniversary. There’s plenty more to see and do from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight.

It’s free. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

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Halloween Flea Market More than 25 vendors wil sell horror VHS/DVDs, action figures, toys, hand-made Halloween arts and crafts, home decor, gifts, makeup, jewelry, taxidermy, and other Halloween-related items at the second annual Halloween Flea Market at Now That’s Class.

There will be a costume contest, with a prize for the best dressed.

A $1 donation is suggested, which will benefit the Cleveland APL. Additionally, the first 50 people through the door will receive a free button 3-pack courtesy of this year’s sponsor, Blackhole.press. The event runs from 2 to 8 p.m. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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Wheel of Fortune’s Wheelmobile Since its inception in 1999, Wheel of Fortune’s Wheelmobile has logged over 350,000 miles, visited more than 300 cities, and attracted more than a million fans who hope to get on the game show and win big money. From 6 to 10 p.m. today and from noon to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park, the promotional vehicle will be on hand, in search of players who are “energetic, enthusiastic and fun.”

Staff members from the Wheel of Fortune promotions team will begin handing out applications one hour before each show begins.

Today, searches will be held at 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tomorrow, searches will be held at noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., with each show lasting about an hour. Everyone who attends will be able to submit an application. Participants will be selected to audition via a random draw. Potential contestants can fill out an application with the hope of having their names drawn at random to play a simulated version of the game onstage and win unique prizes. Staff members will then evaluate them as a potential contestant for the broadcast version of the show. Due to gaming regulations, you must be at least 21 years of age to attend the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park Wheelmobile event. The Wheelmobile event will take place inside Hard Rock Live. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

Artist Talk Currently on view at the Cleveland Print Room through Nov. 5, Perpetual Ephemera features new work by local photographers Preston Buchtel, Ryn Clarke, Hadley K. Conner and Raheleh Mohammad. The unique exhibition challenges each photographer in terms of both process and content.

The artists will discuss their work during an artist talk in the gallery at 1 p.m. today. It’s free. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.

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Book Launch Party For the past two years, local photographer Laura Wimbels has documented Cleveland through portraits of its people. Through these faces, Wimbels showcases the character of our city. Her new book, Faces of Cleveland, collects these portraits, many of “famous” Clevelanders in their work or living spaces. Faces of Cleveland also includes five essays from her subjects on our city. The book is available for pre-order through her website, facesofcle.com, for $35; the hardcover, 132-page book comes signed by Wimbels. Or meet her yourself at the launch party tonight from 6 to 10 at Canopy. Mason’s Creamery will offer hayrides to/from Canopy, the nearby 3204 Studios and the ice cream shop. Books will be available for purchase, and many of the “faces of Cleveland” are expected attend. It’s free. (Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., 216-309-1090, canopy-collective.com.

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Johnny Cash Day A week-long series of events devoted to the late, great country singer Johnny Cash concludes today at the Rock Hall with Johnny Cash Day. Cash’s youngest daughter, Tara Cash Schwoebel, will sign copies of her new book, Recollections by J.R. Cash: Childhood Memories of Johnny Cash. There will be a panel with the Cash family historian, live music from local bands and screenings of special archival videos of Cash’s performances. It all starts at 11 a.m. and events take place throughout the day. Normal Rock Hall admission rates apply. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

THEATER

C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert Actor Max McLean takes audiences on “a fascinating theatrical adventure” as he traces author C.S. Lewis’ career in C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert. Adapted almost exclusively from Lewis’ writings, the play chronicles the death of Lewis’ mother, his estranged relationship with his father and the experiences that led him from vigorous debunker to the “most accessible and eloquent Christian intellectual of the 20th century.” The performance takes place today at 4 and 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets start at $31.50. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

HALLOWEEN NIGHTLIFE

Halloweezy Halloweezy Devastation, the seventh annual celebration of the “weird

and scary sides” of local art, comes to the former Osborn Industrial Complex, where organizers invite guests to enjoy horror-themed vendors and live entertainment.

Doors open at 9 p.m., and the show starts at 11 p.m. Costumes are encouraged. Admission is $15 and restricted to ages 21 and over.

(Niesel) 5401 Hamilton Ave., halloweezy. com.

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Thirty years after it caused a scandal at its festival premiere, the drama Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which is loosely based on a true story, remains one of the “most disturbing and terrifying examinations of mass murderers ever filmed.” The film centers on Henry (Michael Rooker), a psychopathic drifter who kills for no reason and shows no remorse.

He eventually makes his way to Chicago, where he befriends Becky (Tracy Arnold), who becomes attracted to Henry without realizing he’s a killer. Tonight at midnight, the Capitol Theatre screens a new digital restoration of the movie.

Tickets are $9.50. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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The Pit A Canuxploitation horror classic originally released in 1981, The Pit centers on 12-year old Jamie (Sammy Snyders), a creepy kid who has just one friend — an evil teddy bear. Jamie uses the bear to take revenge upon the kids who regularly tease him. Tonight at 7:15, the Capitol Theatre shows a new 2-K digital restoration of the movie.

Tickets are $9.50 (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

SPOKEN WORD

Professional Practices Series Ever wanted to know more about art criticism? How to approach an art exhibition? How the internet has affected newspapers? As part of its Professional Practices Series, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve host a lecture on these questions and more with Dottie Shinn, long-time art critic at the Akron Beacon Journal. This free lecture is open to the public and will include a Q & A session afterward.

Guests are asked to register in advance through Eventbrite.

(Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org.

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Sex with Strangers The Cleveland Play House production of Sex with Strangers centers on Olivia, an obscure novelist who’s about to turn 40, and Ethan, a famous blogger — and 28. When these two strangers collide at a remote B&B, a steamy romance erupts. Passion, intellect and secret agendas clash in Sex with Strangers.

This smart, tantalizing take on modern love flirts with the everblurring line between public and private in our digital age. The play opens tonight at 7:30 at the Outcault Theatre, where it runs through Nov. 13. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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7th Day Sweat The “seventh day” tends to be a day of rest for many folks. But not for the party hearty people who run B-Side Liquor Lounge, the popular dance club located beneath the Grog Shop. Dubbed 7th Day Sweat,

their weekly Sunday night soiree features DJ White Rims spinning “today’s hottest dance hits,” so you can “sweat it out” every Sunday.

Admission is free but you must be 21 or older. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

COMEDY

Howie Mandel Best known as the host of the game show Deal or No Deal and a judge on American’s Got Talent, chromedomed comic Howie Mandel initially got his start as a standup comic.

His career as a comic dates back to the late 1970s. He’s notorious for his ability to engage with patrons and come up with jokes about them off the cuff. Expect him to show off his sharp wit tonight at 7:30 at Hard Rock Live, the concert venue at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Tickets range from $45 to $85.

(Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Following the release of Buena Vista Social Club, the Oscar-nominated Wim Wenders documentary, the then-unknown Cuban jazz group Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club became an international sensation.

The band draws from years of performing at Havana’s clubs and dancehalls, playing a range of musical styles, including son montunos, danzón, cha cha cha, boleros and jazz. Currently on a farewell tour, the group will perform at 7 tonight at Lakewood Civic Auditorium with singer Omara Portuondo. The performance will include special guests such as Roberto Fonseca, one of Havana’s best known pianists, clarinetist Anat

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Tickets to the show range from $25 to $35. The concert is part of the 2016-2017 Tri-C Presents season, which showcases classical piano, jazz and dance acts from fall through spring. (Niesel) 14100 Franklin Ave., Lakewood, 216-529-4081, lkwdpl.org/schools/civicaud.

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Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas.

Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

FOOD

Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night.

Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice) or many of the regular menu items made vegan.

If you’re still feeling skeptical, know this: Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

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At the Movies: Nosferatu One of the earliest adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the 1922 German expressionist film Nosferatu still provokes a chill. Tonight’s special screening of the movie at Severance Hall will feature organist Todd Wilson, playing accompanying music on the hall’s mighty Norton Memorial Organ — considered one of the finest concert organs ever built.

The event begins at 7:30, and tickets

start at $30. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs Bryan Stubbs of Cleveland Water Alliance will discuss Water & Lake Erie at Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs, the Happy Dog’s monthly speaker series. Grab a hot dog and a beer and listen to an expert talk about one of Northeast Ohio’s most precious resources in the Happy Dog’s casual setting. The discussion begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Tower The 1960s were turbulent times, with riots, revolution and war in the air. Tragedy struck again on Aug. 1, 1966, when a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas clock tower and opened fire. The documentary film Tower combines archival footage with “rotoscopic animation” of the event. The film uses first-person testimonies from witnesses, heroes and survivors. It screens tonight at 7:30 at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $9.50. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Vinyl Night While sales of CDs continue to decline, vinyl has seen a resurgence.

In fact, the recent Jack White album became the fastest-selling vinyl album since Nielsen Soundscan began compiling vinyl sales figures in 1991. Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” In keeping with that spirit and recognizing the burgeoning popularity of vinyl, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases. The place has partnered with Loop in Tremont so that patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. We love the concept.

It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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ART LET’S TALK ABOUT IT Westside arts festival shines light on mental illness and addiction

By Josh Usmani THIS WEEK, WORLD-RENOWNED Cleveland-based artist Derek Hess partners with the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County (ADAMHS) for Acting Out, a threeday festival to help remove stigmas surrounding mental illness, dual diagnosis and addiction. The festival features art, live music, comedy, a film screening and panel discussion at venues in the Gordon Square Arts District.

A brainchild of Hess and his longtime friend and manager Marty Geramita, the subject is particularly important to the artist whose battles with bipolar disorder and substance abuse are not only well known, but subjects in his emotionally charged artwork.

The festival begins at 8 p.m. this Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Happy Dog. In partnership with Accidental Comedy, Wednesday’s comedy event features an evening of comedians diagnosed with mental health and/ or addiction issues who use standup to break down stigmas surrounding mental health. Participating comedians include locals Jeremy Sheer, Mandi Leigh, Mark Collella and more, as well as Chicago comedian Marty DeRosa (of the Wrestling with Depression podcast).

Standup begins at 9 p.m., and admission is $5. Tickets are available in advance through Eventbrite or at the door.

Acting Out continues on Thursday with a panel discussion at the Happy Dog at 8 p.m. A group of mental health and addiction professionals and creative professionals will discuss mental health, the creative process and how the arts provide a healthy outlet for those battling with mental health issues and addiction. Panelists include Lori D’Angelo (executive director, Magnolia Clubhouse), Joseph Calabrese (director, Mood Disorders Program, University Hospitals Case Medical Center), Dan Holt (blues singer-songwriter, living with bipolar disorder) and Daryl Musick (artist and arts therapist, living with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder). The panel discussion is free.

Following the panel discussion, the nearby Capitol Theatre hosts a film screening of Forced Perspective, Cleveland native Nick Cavalier’s award-winning documentary on Hess. The film chronicles Hess’ art career from early Euclid Tavern concert posters to his fine art gallery exhibitions, his struggle with alcoholism and bipolar disorder, and

how these battles have influenced his work. A Q & A session with Hess, Cavalier and Geramita will follow, as well as a meet-and-greet and book signing. Admission is $10. Advance tickets are available through Eventbrite and Cleveland Cinemas.

Friday starts with an art exhibition at Derek Hess Gallery as part of Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios from 5 to 9 p.m. Featuring

Faces of Cleveland book captures the character of the city FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, local photographer Laura Wimbels has been documenting Cleveland through portraits of its people.

Her new book, Faces of Cleveland, collects these portraits, many of “famous” Clevelanders in their work or living spaces, but also dozens of Cleveland’s lesser known, but often equally hardworking, residents who help make our city what it is.

An unexpected moment with friends on a winter afternoon in 2014 sparked Wimbels’ inspiration for the project. Wimbels met friends at the Tremont Taphouse for their annual Winter Beerfest. Taking her camera with her, Wimbels captured the joy of her friends in the moment, and found her muse in the people of her hometown. In the days and weeks following, many

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chance encounters with eminent Clevelanders around town kicked the project into motion.

Wimbels’ book includes about 120 portraits, but the project continues with Wimbels already planning a second volume. To date, she’s photographed more than 180 “Faces of Cleveland.”

The book is available for pre-order through her website (facesofcle.com) for $35. The hardcover, 132-page book comes signed by Wimbels, but you can meet her yourself at the launch party at Canopy from 6 to 10 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 22.

Mason’s Creamery will provide free hayrides to/from Canopy, the nearby 3204 Studios and the ice cream shop. Books will be available for purchase, and many of the

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“Faces of Cleveland” are expected to be in attendance. Only 100 copies will be available at Canopy.

But when the physical copies are gone, preorders will be filled the following week. Additionally, Faces of Cleveland will be available at Mac’s Backs, CLE Clothing Company, Appletree Books and more, as well as shipped anywhere directly from Wimbels via her website.

For the book’s introduction, Wimbels asked five of Cleveland’s most prominent and active “faces” to write page-long essays on their city. Contributing “Voices of Cleveland” include Matthew Chojnacki, John Dudas, Laura Kubinski, Mike Polk Jr., Ramon Rivas II, Aaron Sechrist and Eric Williams.

nearly two dozen artists, the exhibition collectively explores the creative response to mental illness and addiction through works created by artists who either have been diagnosed with or personally affected by mental illness and/or addiction. Third Fridays at 78th Street Studio are always free and open to the public.

The festival concludes back at Happy Dog with a closing party featuring live music from local bands performing original music, as well as a special tribute set dedicated to musicians who battled mental health or addiction. Guests can bid on original artwork by Hess in a silent auction, with proceeds donated to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Greater Cleveland. Tickets are available through Eventbrite or at the door.

Participating musicians include Murderedman (doing a tribute to Joy Division), Mourning A BLKstar (Gil ScottHeron) and New Lou Reeds (Roky Erickson).

This special event series is sponsored in part by ADAMHS, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit NAMI Greater Cleveland. For more information, visit actingoutcle.com or facebook.com/actingoutfest.

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STAGE STRAINING FOR LAUGHS This soggy, sloppy comedy isn’t up to convergence-continuum standards

By Christine Howey IT’S DIFFICULT TO WRITE A negative review of a play when the theater company presenting it is in the midst of a life-or-death capital campaign to keep their building and their theater itself. So let’s begin with this: The convergencecontinuum theater company richly deserves to continue its existence, so if you can afford to contribute money to their urgent fundraising effort, you should visit their website at convergence-continuum.org. And please be generous.

Con-con has earned a respected place in the theater community for their risky and bold choices of plays.

And when they hit, their productions are second to none in Northeast Ohio. Of course, no theater bats 1.000, and this Tremont group’s current production is, unfortunately, an example of theater gone wrong on multiple levels.

The slug line for the generically titled Like I Say by Len Jenkin is “a bizarre comedy.” If only. Due to a woefully wit-deprived script (many punch lines rely on the unexpected use of the word “fuck” for their humor), slack direction and less than inventive acting, this production is a long (two-and-a-half hour) journey to exactly nowhere. And not nearly as bizarre as it should be.

Some of the problems begin with Jenkin’s convoluted script, which collects a group of eccentric characters in a rundown joint, the Hotel Splendide, somewhere in coastal America. It is there that a young and dissipated writer, Isaiah, pads around in his bathrobe spouting narration from one of his opuses, while being attended to by his assistant Rose. For her part, Rose spends her time getting freebie tattoos from another hotel resident, Mr. Schwarzberg (a game Robert Hawkes). They are watched over by the hotel’s landlady Helena (Lauren B. Smith) and a gofer dubbed Little Junior. Helena clearly has a soft spot for Isaiah, for no apparent reason. And then the whole group is introduced to an elderly couple, Leon and Tanya Vole, a Eurotrash pair of puppeteers and con artists who show up on the hotel’s porch.

Jenkin is trying to be ridiculous

and profound at the same time, focusing on a weary sampling of humanity at the world’s end and weaving in a story Isaiah is writing about Coconut Joe (an intermittently amusing Robert Branch, whose perplexed expression often seems like a comment on the show itself).

Joe is a buyer for a cookie company and is on a worldwide hunt for the perfect shredded coconut. This subplot, a tortured metaphor for the quest for personal fulfillment and hope, is performed in four extended cutaways from the “action” at the Hotel, adding another layer of nonsense to the proceedings.

It is conceivable that this script could be entertaining or at least

antic energy slowly plod, some so lethargically that one actually loses the characters’ train of thought.

To some degree, Rand also has to shoulder responsibility for performances that are demonstrably unequal to the task at hand.

As Isaiah, Logan Smith swans about with a dreamy look in his eye, but that’s about as far as his characterization goes, never looking beneath the physical mannerisms for a character hook. As his quasinurse Rose, Linda Sekanic plays the attitude of the moment but with a similar disconnect to any underlying idea about who this woman really is.

Two of the roles that have the most stage time are the Voles, and

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diverting on some level, but not with the current cast — most of whom are called upon to play multiple roles — and not as presently directed. Tyson Douglas Rand, an accomplished local director who has helmed some fine productions in the past, seems lost in the ozone on this one. Scenes that should clip by with speed and

sadly Clyde Simon and Marcia Mandell struggle in their attempts to make these folks interesting. As written, Leon and Tanya offer the opportunity for some gloriously overthe-top characterizations. But due to a pervasive hesitancy on lines and a lack of imagination and risk-taking, this pair of juicy characters comes

across as boring and a bit pathetic.

For instance, the short puppet show they put on for the hotel denizens is rather agonizing, until a prop gag at the end finally elicits a chuckle.

In the smaller speaking role of Little Joe, the stuttering hotel gofer who supposedly attended college, August Scapelli often is blankly smiling and grinning, as if he had just wandered in from rehearsing a bit part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at some other theater.

Add to those problems the fact that the production feels unusually sloppy, with scene changes looking unrehearsed as people are often moving to their assigned spots when the lights come up. Indeed, everything about Like I Say feels undercooked and lazily executed.

This is a play that is actually begging for a high-concept treatment, something or anything to lift the randomness of the script onto a different level.

Instead, this con-con show tries to take itself semi-seriously. And that turns this kludge of a “bizarre comedy” into a semi-disaster.

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MOVIES KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES CAN’T KEEP UP Listless action comedy struggles for laughs

By Sam Allard A SUBURBAN COUPLE BECOMES embroiled in a half-baked international threat in Keeping Up with the Joneses, a movie you’re destined to confuse with 2010’s Date Night, if you remember it at all, opening Friday in wide release.

Zack Galifianakis and Isla Fisher are Jeff and Karen Gaffney, cul-de-sac dwellers and parents of two, whose spiceless love life and boring, generic jobs (HR, interior design) are portrayed as symptoms of something indelibly suburban. So, too, perhaps, are Galifianakis’ and Fisher’s subdued performances, dialed back from the splashy character roles for which they’re best known (The Hangover, Wedding Crashers).

No, there’s not much life in the burbs, and certainly not in this one, home to employees of a big aerospace firm, MBI. Director Greg Mottola (Superbad) is clear on that score, though it’s an observation without much bite or purpose; the film is hardly an attack or, heaven forfend, a commentary on suburban life. If anything it’s a punch line, a covalence meant to equate the desperate accumulation of material goods in pursuit of one’s neighbors and the literal keeping pace with undercover spies, who happen to be code-named Tim and Natalie Jones.

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One summer morning, the tall, sexy, interesting Tim and Natalie

(Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) move into the cul-de-sac and invigorate the local gossip circles. But despite the neighborly cookies and BBQs, Karen Gaffney intuits that this “travel writer” and “food blogger” are much more than they let on.

How can they afford this pricey home and multiple MercedesBenzes, for example? Turns out Tim and Natalie are CIA operatives, sent to root out an MBI insider smuggling computer chips to an international arms dealer.

“We spent years undercover [in Europe, Asia, etc.] and were never caught,” Natalie Jones exclaims in one unmemorable diner scene, “but we couldn’t last two weeks in the suburbs.” Hee-haw.

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Gal Gadot is of course one of Hollywood’s “It” girls right now, having already appeared in Triple 9 and Batman V Superman in 2016 and on the precipice of major stardom with her ongoing appearances as Wonder Woman in the DC film universe. (Gadot, incidentally, was also in Date Night.) She’s more or less a standin for Angelina Jolie from the much better 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and is a credible undercover spy. Hamm, less so. His MercedesBenz connection — he does the voice-overs in the commercials — is perhaps his strongest credential for the role. And the constant presence of the cars invites conspiracy theories about the Mad Men star’s casting.

The script’s jokes are variations on stupid, easy suburban tropes.

There’s a lot of bland sex stuff — one fantasy scenario is pretty funny — and the frequent juxtaposition of the supposedly dumpy Gaffneys (one of whom is Isla Fisher) and the chic and cosmopolitan Joneses. In a car chase, which represents the the movie’s only action sequences, Karen explains to her sons, off at summer camp, by phone how to break and share a cookie.

Something about this whole exercise just seems tired and rote.

The script lacks the improvisational riffing of most comedies in vogue and the criminal operation at the movie’s center is not only undeveloped but beyond the pale.

When the smuggler is identified, Jeff elicits a confession — his years in human resources make him a “great listener” — and Jeff and Karen assume the roles of smuggler and accomplice to aid their new spy pals. The plot, in general, is better left unscrutinized.

Galifianakis is always a comedic draw, and it’s not like there’s anything abhorrent here. It’s just so blasé. Don’t expect to walk away from Keeping Up with the Jones with anything other than the satisfaction of having killed some time.

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SPOTLIGHT: DENIAL IF KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ISN’T your speed, there’s always Denial, a film which chronicles the trial of a true-life Holocaust denier, opening Friday at select theaters. Can you spell F-U-N? Here is Rachel Weisz, generously outfitted in ’90s jogging pants and New York City accent, portraying the Emory professor and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. She’s sued for libel

by British politician David Irving (Timothy Spall) after denigrating him in a published work.

Irving, a Hitler apologist and hardcore bigot who “wants it both ways” — respect as a legitimate historian, adulation from Nazis — brings the case in British court, where the presumption of innocence (a hallmark of the U.S. legal system) does not apply. It’s Lipstadt and

her legal team who have to prove that Irving did knowingly misinterpret history as a function of his anti-semitism.

With a few powerful courtroom scenes, courtesy of Tom Wilkinson as Lipstadt’s noble, white-wigged barrister Richard Rampton, and a tense, poignant exchange at Auschwitz, Denial is in many ways an elegy for the Holocaust, but also a treatise on the limits of free speech. One could imagine an equally powerful (and in fact more morally complicated) film that lionized a lawyer for defending Irving, compelled to represent a repellant man based on higher principles of free speech. But Lipstadt and the film argue that denying the truth of the Holocaust is as dangerous a form of speech as yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater, an affront to history and the millions who lost their lives.

The central conflict, though, is much more about the strategy of the legal team than the Holocaust itself. Lipstadt wants to speak, to take a turn on the witness stand to confront her accuser. She also wants Holocaust survivors to testify. But Lipstadt’s team insists that she remain silent, that they focus instead on Irving’s own words and racist track record. This struggle, this quiet sacrifice, makes for solemn, contemplative cinema, but it’s a credit to Weisz and Wilkinson (and, indeed, to Spall) that a movie about legal technicalities can be such an effective forum for discussing the Holocaust. It is the polar opposite of last year’s Son of Saul, and nowhere near as gripping as that film, but is a worthy and sometimes beautiful tribute to the atrocity.

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BUMPER CROP Why 2016 was the best year for Ohio vineyards in a long, long time

By Douglas Trattner THE TWO-MILE-WIDE STRIP OF land that hugs the Grand River between Painesville and Route 45 is known as the Grand River Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area that many agree is the best place in Ohio to grow wine grapes.

“It is the largest AVA in the state, the most well known, and the one that tends to produce the most quality wines because of the proximity to the lake, which extends the growing season,” explains Gene Sigel of Chalet Debonne Vineyards.

Barring calamities, what determines a good year versus a bad year usually comes down to something called growing degree days, an objective measure of heat accumulation that dictates if and when a crop will achieve peak maturity. Based on that indicator, says Sigel, 2016 is shaping up to be the best vintage in decades.

“What makes a great year in any wine growing vintage is primarily growing degree days,” he says.

“The years that really stick out when we come to the table and taste wine are the years where we’ve had hot, dry weather over a long stretch of time. This is one of the best seasons we’ve had growing red wine grapes that I can remember, and I’ve been farming grapes in the

Grand River Valley for 23 years.”

Sigel and his colleagues at nearby vineyards like Grand River Cellars, Laurello, Laurentia, M Cellars, South River Vineyards and others all are benefiting from the second-warmest September on record. That prolonged heat allows grapes to achieve peak ripeness levels, develop complexity, reduce acid and add sugars.

While it’s red wine grapes like pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc that benefit the most from a long, hot and dry summer, white wine grapes get a big boost too, says Larry Laurello of Laurello Vineyards. He’s been farming 15 acres in the Grand River Valley for 14 years and this one is shaping up to be the best.

“In previous years you’re always watching for the next front to see when to pull the grapes, which isn’t always the optimum time,” he explains. “This year everything came in before we had to concern ourselves with that. When you are picking grapes based on their quality and not on the fronts, you know you’re going to end up having a really good year.”

All of Laurello’s white wine grapes have been harvested except for the vidal blanc that will be used to make ice wine. Those will hang

on the vine until our first hard freeze. Looking at the pinot grigio, riesling and vidal blanc that already has been harvested, Laurello can tell that this current vintage is the best he’s experienced in ages.

“What really tells us we’re going to have a good year is the pH and acidity levels of the wines,” he notes.

“In Northeast Ohio we’re proud of our acid, but we always have a hard time getting rid of acid. This year, all of our whites came in with phenomenal acid levels.”

Whether or not you’re into Ohio wine, you can deduce that 2014 was a brutal year for local growers and vintners. The prolonged and exceptionally cold temperatures ushered in by the polar vortex wiped out 97 percent of that year’s crop. And while it was the worst year in decades, winemakers do have some tools at their disposal to lessen the blow.

“It’s part of farming; not every year produces a good vintage,” says Sigel. “We have deep cellars that can hold two or three vintages and sometimes grapes go into making blushes and blended wines rather than varietals or top-notch reds.”

It might surprise readers to learn that much of the 2016 crop of red wine grapes in the Grand

River Valley are still hanging on the vines. Matt Meineke’s Bordeaux-style varietals like cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and cabernet franc are plump, ripe and ready to be harvested, which he will do in the coming days and weeks. And when this year’s wines start hitting the shelves in the next year or so, they will be stunners.

“We had a nice hot, dry summer, no frost and a moderate winter,” he says. “Everything kind of aligned this year so the wines should be great. One of our best years for sure.”

While the 2016s won’t be out for some time, there is no reason to put off a visit to the Grand River Valley — or any of our wine-growing regions. Fall might just be the best time of year to visit, with grape harvesting taking place across a picturesque backdrop of colorful foliage.

“There’s a good chance of seeing a lot of winemaking,” says Meineke.

“We’ll be working like crazy in the cellar, getting the vineyards all tidied up, and getting ready for winter. It doesn’t really slow down here until the New Year.”

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For local cider, look no further than Redhead Ciderhouse

By Rachel Hunt IT’S EARLY THURSDAY MORNING and Burnham Orchards (8019 State Rt. 113, 419-588-2138, redheadciderhouse.com) is already teeming with kids fresh off the school bus for a fieldtrip. At one end of the cozy space, a group of third-graders peers through a large glass window into a room where apples are being pressed between large accordion-like flaps to make cider.

Carter, the orchard’s pressman, waves to the visitors before scooping up pounds of pulp with a paddle and dumping it in the machine. It’s a very hard, labor-intensive process, one that Josh Raboin is very familiar with. “I worked here as a teenager and my father was the one pressing the cider,” he says from behind the bar, pointing to Carter. “My partner, Joe Burnham, worked here too. He was just out of high school, starting college. He would come around in the summer months and we became good friends while his dad was running the business.”

A friendship forged around apples. Joe is the sixth generation of Burnhams to work at the Berlin Heights-based orchard, about an hour west of Cleveland. They’ve focused on continuing the farm’s growth, bringing their products to neighboring communities, and now, for the first time, bars. The orchard’s newest venture happens to be Redhead Ciderhouse, producer of naturally gluten-free craft hard cider.

“It’s been a family tradition on my father’s side for a long time,” Raboin says of his roots. “My father continued making hard ciders and wines at home. I started learning and just kept going with it, developing new ciders, different ingredients and methods.

When you’re home brewing, there’s not a lot of science behind it. I took more of a scientific route and thought that one day I’d like to do this commercially.”

Twenty-four varieties of apples are grown in the orchards, seven of which make it into their blend. The apples used for cider are No. 2 apples, ones that have been sorted through a huge conveyor and run through a hightech scanner that rates each apple according to color, weight and number of visible blemishes. Unlike their more attractive counterparts, the cider apples won’t be bagged and sent out to

local groceries or Walmart via Ohio Apples, the co-op where Burnham and his father sit on the board. Instead, they will travel just feet away to the ciderhouse to be pressed and fermented into hard cider.

In 2014, the cidery officially produced its first batches of hard cider: Redhead Original and Coop Dill’Ville, a semi-sweet dill-spiced cider no longer found on the current menu (though Raboin hopes to bring it back). Since then, they’ve crafted an Apple Pie Cider that tastes like the real thing right down to the buttery aftertaste, a Hot Chick Cider fermented with jalapenos for a slightly spicy, peppery kick, and Smooth Hoperator, a smooth, semisweet cider with light citrus and fresh floral notes. Next week, they will debut a new Pumpkin Pie Cider in their taproom.

Ciders can be purchased by the pint or in growlers at the taproom and in 750-ml jugs at Miles Farmer's Market in Solon. Maple City Ice Company, a local distributor, delivers Redhead Ciderhouse kegs to spots in Put-in-Bay, Mansfield and Lorain. A wider network is expected to develop in the future.

With hard cider demand on the rise, and production at the ciderhouse climbing above 4,000 gallons per year, I ask Raboin if the orchard grows enough apples. He laughs and guides us next door to one of five warehousesized coolers, each filled to the ceiling with crates of apples. There seems to be an infinite number. The real question is whether or not Raboin can keep up with demand.

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By Douglas Trattner MOST OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood on the eastside of town. But few of us know the history behind Cleveland’s west-side Little Italy, clustered north of Detroit between West 65th and 69th streets, in what is now referred to as the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

“The architecture’s a little different, the neighbors are a little different, there are one-way streets,” explains Brian Holleran. “That’s the beauty of this place; there’s so much character and history. To be able to take something old and make it new is fun.”

Along with partner Brian Moss, Holleran will be converting an old billiard hall turned apartment building on West 65th — directly across the street from Stone Mad Pub — into Il Rione Pizzeria (1303 West 65th St.).

The name refers to neighborhoods or districts within larger cities. The

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two have been developing the project since they worked together at Stone Mad, where Moss now works as chef. Holleran is a counselor at Saint Ignatius High School by day, Irish musician by night.

Holleran grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, and says that he’s been lamenting the lack of what he calls “real New York/New Jersey-style pizza” since he moved to Cleveland a decade ago. He and Moss have been working

for years to perfect the dough and technique.

“My goal was to try and replicate Spirito’s in Elizabeth, New Jersey,” he says. “If you were to combine Spirito’s and Patsy’s Pizza [in New York], that’s the ultimate goal.”

To Holleran, pizza perfection is a 16inch pie baked in a Blodgett deck oven.

It comes out with a crispy bottom — “more like a baguette kind of dough” — and a crust enriched by a touch of olive oil. Toppings are kept to a minimum of six or seven options. The kitchen will add some salads, maybe a cheese plate, but nothing fancy or trendy, he assures us.

“There are so many creative people in Cleveland, but we are not those people,” Holleran says in a Jersey accent without a hint of sarcasm.

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There will be beer, wine and a full bar, but don’t expect a menu of Manhattans and Sazeracs.

“Gin and tonics for sure, but we’re not going to be muddling anything.”

The future pizza shop will accommodate about 35 to 40 guests when it’s completed next summer.

Because this project has been percolating for so long, Holleran says that he and his partner have watched in trepidation as new places continue to open up all around them.

“Every time another pizza place or place that has pizza opens up we’d freak out and say, ‘Somebody else is going to be the pizza people here!’” he says. “But then we’d go down and try it and say that’s totally not us, this is not even close to who we are, what we want to do, and how we want to make it. I tried ’em all and none of them cut the mustard, you know?

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Mike Mariola is on a roll. The restaurateur who made a name for himself at South Market Bistro in Wooster left there to open City Square Steakhouse across the street. In 2011, he opened the first Rail burger bar in Akron, quickly following with additional locations in North Olmsted, Canton and Strongsville.

He just opened the Ohio Beer Garden (402 Great Northern Blvd., 440-979-1001), a casual taproom dedicated to Ohio’s best beers (and a mead or two).

“The space next door [to the Rail in North Olmsted] was available but I didn’t want to expand the restaurant because it’s a good size and I didn’t want to mess with it,” Mariola explains. “Once we got the space, we started thinking about what we could do with it. Why don’t we do something really different and get away from the full-service restaurant thing and do something modeled after the beer tasting rooms that you’d find at breweries all around Ohio?”

Mariola says that he loves the fun, casual atmosphere found at many of the state’s tasting rooms, where parents can feel comfortable bringing their kids, there are plenty of games to

play, and food is nothing complicated.

The 3,500-square-foot space will not have a traditional bar, but rather counter service, where guests walk up, order a beer, and grab a seat at the beer garden-style picnic tables. A garage door facade opens to a front patio on warm evenings. The beer list will consist of two dozen Ohio beers from around the state, available in pints and growlers.

“Me and beverage manager Mike Patterson will work with the breweries that we already have relationships with to encourage them to offer the pub-only stuff or limited release beers,” Mariola notes.

For that reason, guests can expect a very fluid selection.

While he initially planned to offer little or no food, the space came with a pizza oven, which would have been a shame to ignore. Guests can enjoy snacks and a pizza, order carry-out from the Rail next door, or bring in the food of their choice.

“I really want to continue pushing Ohio beers because I feel like that is something we can continue to be a front-runner on,” Mariola says.

Ohio Beer Garden is open every day at 3 p.m.

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Two quick updates to pass along: Cleveland Bagel is now open in its Ohio City location every morning at 6:30 a.m. They sold out (quickly!) the first few mornings and have since increased production.

Second, Ushabu, a Japenese hot pot long in the works in Tremont, will finally open its doors on Oct. 20.

Each seat is outfitted with its own induction burner topped with a clay hot pot. The soup pot is filled with a choice of three broths — gingerchicken, spicy miso, and kombu dashi — in which various meats, fish, seasonal veggies and noodles are cooked and eaten. Thinly sliced pieces of heritage breed pork, wagyu beef, lamb or seafood are briefly dunked in the simmering broth (the term “shabushabu” translates to “swish-swish,” the movement of the ingredients in the soup) to cook them. They are then dipped in sauces like sweet sesame, ponzu and soy-vinegar and eaten with rice. Udon noodles are added to the remaining broth and consumed last.

Pan-Asian small plates like Taiwanese oyster omelet, Hakka-style squid stir fry and a few other starters will join the concise menu. For the time being, Ushabu does not have a liquor license.

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LOOKING BACK AT THE MAN IN BLACK Music Master series performers Eilen Jewell, Mike Ness and John Doe talk about Johnny Cash’s influence

By Jeff Niesel WITH THE ANNUAL MUSIC Masters series, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Case Western Reserve University honor a Rock Hall inductee with a week of programming that culminates in a tribute concert.

This year’s honoree is Johnny Cash, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. The weeklong celebration takes place through Saturday and includes a tribute concert on Friday at Playhouse Square’s State Theatre.

In separate phone interviews, singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell, Social Distortion’s Mike Ness and X’s John Doe, all whom perform at the tribute concert, spoke about the Man in Black.

Do you recall the first time you would have come across Johnny Cash’s music?

Jewell: I do remember hearing him for the first time when I had just moved away for my first year of college. I must have been 18 or 19. At first, I thought I didn’t really like him.

Someone told me he was a country artist. At the time, I had this block against country music. I thought it was the mainstream stuff you hear everyday on the radio. I didn’t give him a close listen the first time. At some point, maybe a year later, I discovered Hank Williams. That opened the door to my love of country music. It wasn’t too long after that that I accepted the greatness of Johnny Cash. It took awhile to get past that prejudice against country music.

Ness: it would have definitely been as a kid. My parents had records around the house. My mom was more rock ’n’ roll and my dad was more country, so I got exposed to both worlds. It just resonated with me. There are certain things that when you hear a certain tone, it just resonates with you. It becomes like a photograph in your memory. It’s very subconscious.

Doe: Oh, it was probably as a kid.

Probably the first thing I heard was something like “A Boy Named Sue.” Back then, you heard things out in the ether. I started studying him when I began listening to all of the Sun Records via the Blasters and Billy Zoom giving me my punk rock Sun Records education.

What did you think of that booming voice of his?

Jewell: At first, I thought it was kind of strangely polished and operatic, which is really weird to me now to think that. I don’t hear the over-polished quality of it at all anymore. Now, when I hear his voice it’s almost like hearing a member of my own family. He’s comfortable to me. His music and his voice have this comforting presence in my life, just like a beloved family member.

Ness: His voice has a lot of body, and I liked that.

Doe: I didn’t like his voice initially, but later I did because it was so unique and often out of tune. I know this is blasphemous but that’s why

I wasn’t as fond of the Rick Rubin sessions because I could tell it had been massaged. Like Billy Lee Riley or Sonny Burgess, it was just wide open, but the songs he wrote and the songs he covered were just like the best of the best. Nothing was ever kitsch. He kept that for his personal life. He had a wicked adolescent sense of humor from everything that I know about him. I had a good friend who was close with him and so I got an inside view of what Johnny Cash was all about.

His lyrics are uniquely dark and introspective. Can you talk about that quality of his music?

Jewell: That is a quality of his songwriting that I think I might have picked up along the way. I tend to do that in my songwriting. He’s been an influence on a lot of songwriters since he first came on the scene. Personally, I tend to gravitate to songwriting on the darker side. I love that. That is something that I admire in a singersongwriter. I think music has a way of letting us do that. If we want to, we can wallow and we can exaggerate in a way we can’t in regularly speech. I like that quality of him and the way he carries the flag for the darker side to the point that he wore all black. He waved that flag better than anyone else could have.

Ness: I liked the storytelling. That’s been part of my songwriting later on.

I unknowingly gravitated toward that, whether it was fiction or non-fiction.

I think country music and blues in

general have a lot of introspection.

You’re not always writing about the good times. With that music also comes hardship and sin and struggle and conflict and redemption. It’s just admitting faults. In a song like “I Walk the Line,” he’s really trying to do the right thing. Intentions and doing something are often two different things.

Doe: You can’t separate the sound from the music. It’s all one piece. It’s not like Dylan. The lyrics in all that music — the early stuff especially — they weren’t that important. It was like watching a painting of some guy whose shirt is torn walking across a piece of open land. You don’t know where he’s going. Every song gives you a similar feeling of emptiness.

It was entertainment, but it was the weirdest entertainment you could imagine.

What was the first Cash song you learned to play?

Jewell: It’s not one he wrote but one he covered. It’s a Charlie Rich song called “Thanks a Lot.” I love the way Johnny Cash does it with that rhythm.

I never get tired of it. Any song he covered is like a Johnny Cash song. He has a way of making a song his own.

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MUSIC my focus back into the band and the music. I realized how important roots music is and how it needs to be part of our sound. It was such a big part of me. I loved British and American punk. That part wasn’t going to leave. I woke up one morning and it hit me like a train. I really immersed myself in black music and country music and American roots music. It was something I had grown up with.

I embraced it and it really opened the door to so many more things.

My introduction to the blues was the Rolling Stones really. When I was 9 years old, I didn’t know who Muddy Waters was. I liked hearing that stuff around the house. I remember making a note to myself. Years later, I would go back to it and then really getting a deeper understanding and appreciation for it.

Doe: “Big River.” I liked the rhythm of the lyrics. I tried to steal some of those chord changes in the song we did called “Painting the Town Blue” which has a story about someone running away. His song was about chasing, ours was about running away.

What do you have planned for your Music Masters series performance?

Jewell: I don’t know in terms of which songs I’ll sing. I do know that my longtime guitarist Jerry Miller will be with me, which is great. He’s a big part of my sound and he can do that Johnny Cash sound really well too.

Not that we’ll imitate Johnny Cash. No one can really do him justice. I’ll be

either “I Guess Things Happen that Way” or “The One on the Right is On the Left.” They’re not songs we’ve played in the past. I did a version of “I Still Miss Someone” with the Sadies. I know that one pretty well.

What do you hope that people take away from the series?

Jewell: I hope people come away with a greater appreciation for American roots music, maybe not even specifically for Johnny Cash. I think it would be great if people could learn about the history and roots of American music and come away with a sense of pride of where we came from musically and maybe a desire to check out some of those earlier artists. When I was coming up, people older than me were surprised that this girl from Idaho in her 20s would be interested in American roots music and early blues and country artists. I remember being surprised by that. Why wouldn’t I care about it? Now, I’m on the other side wondering if anyone in their 20s cares about this stuff. I hope this might be the “aha” moment for someone who doesn’t know much about roots music but will want to know who influenced Johnny Cash and who influenced the people who influenced the people who influenced Johnny Cash.

Ness: What I have already taken from his music is his contribution to rock ’n’ roll and to country music. He was an innovator. Some of the guys in his band didn’t really know what they were doing. I’ve written songs like that. They’re beautiful accidents and probably not musically correct. You listen to those early Sun recordings, and they didn’t know what they were doing. They were just going along with something, and they created a

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accompanied by the house band, which is exciting and terrifying.

Ness: I requested “Folsom Prison Blues” because it’s a song I played in my sleep, and it’s become a part of me. I’m really looking forward to it. I remember when they were putting all these records out with Johnny Cash songs or this or that, and I never got asked to contribute. Who knows them better than I do? I really appreciate being asked to be part of this.

Doe: We’re crossing our fingers and praying. We don’t have the opportunity to rehearse before we get there. We have chosen four songs which are, “I Still Miss Someone” and “If I Were a Carpenter,” and [guitarist] Billy Zoom may be singing “Teenage Queen” and

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sound. The guy made a big mark on history. There wouldn’t be a lot of acts if it weren’t for him.

Doe: I don’t know. What could they take away that they shouldn’t have already gotten? Anything like this is for the families and the general legacy of the person. It’s a very small tip of the cap to someone who deserves it.

The mistake that some people make is that, if you’re singing it, you have any real connection to the person. Johnny Cash is so far above anything I might achieve or aspire to. I’m glad the coach put me in.

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MUSIC ALL FUNKED UP Esperanza Spalding talks about a few tracks on her adventurous new album

By Jeff Niesel JAZZ SINGER AND BASSIST Esperanza Spalding released her debut, Junjo, in 2006, and the album quickly established her as a rising star.

A favorite of President Obama, who asked her to play at his Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2009, she surprised everyone when she won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011. The awardwinning album, 2010’s Chamber Music Society, featured gorgeous ballads and gentle jazz tunes.

Earlier this year, Spalding kicked off a tour that brings her to the Kent Stage on Oct. 23. The tour follows sold out performances across South Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe and North America. It supports Spalding’s latest album, Emily’s D+Evolution, a concept album about her alter ego. She recently phoned from a Charlotte tour stop to talk about a few songs on the heady release, which features accessible funk and jazz grooves.

“Good Lava” I think intuition has an intelligence and a process that is much broader and faster in terms of synthesizing information and what we can do with our rational, conscious mind. I had no immediate understanding of why “good lava” was an allegory. I was writing this project for Emily. When inspiration came for a song, came for the record, I would just write it. I felt like I was working for this Emily character and trusted that it was part of her narrative. Over the last couple of years, I understand what “good lava” means. I picked up on a theme that a lot of people are coming to terms with, which is the sense that we need a seismic shift. We need a big change.

We need to figure out a way we can operate from a deep sense of humanity and hope, which I believe lives right down under the surface of most people.

Most of us reconcile what should be and could be with what “must be.”

“Unconditional Love” Live, that song happens much later in the set. On the album, it’s nice that they’re next to each other. That’s the beginning and the end. If you start in a place where you’re going to let it flow and stop fighting the rift that’s inevitable and let the identity and your hopes and your fears flow out. You

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on our value system. I think that term is thrown around a lot, but I identify with it more as a musician. I realized that we’re all Judas to somebody and it doesn’t take much to become a Judas.

In fact, he was the hero to most people at the time. Jesus was not a popular dude. He only had 12 apostles. If you were going to move in line with the dominant cultural thought, you would be on the side of Judas. I felt like writing a song from that perspective.

“Funk the Fear” It’s about living your life. There’s no one here to tell you what to do. Often, we don’t reach out for the things we want because we’re not good enough or smart enough. It’s like, “Who am I to get my degree in chemistry?” “Who am I to start a garden in the hood?”

“Who am I to talk to that girl?” “Who am I to become a journalist, or to tell my wife that I love her but I can’t do it anymore, or to tell her or him that we can stick through it and get through it together?” Emily gets wrapped up in the question and trying to find the justification for what she will do in her life. She starts to get lost in the paralysis and the sea of data and knowledge. The only thing that can break her and her new friends out of that is to live and figure that shit out. If you funk the fear and live, it’s guaranteed. It’s a law like gravity. You will live and you will find it.

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can unleash a seed that grows. Once you allow that to happen, it becomes possible to experience unconditional love. You’re not fighting against yourself or the structure that can be built up around yourself. If you’re exposed and living with vulnerability in the world, I feel I can fully accept others and forgive and accept all the madness and beauty and violence and sweetness and nourishment that’s there. That’s really hard and it’s challenging to do that. That is a lifelong project. They are definitely related. If we can encourage each other to erupt our good lava, it’s more likely

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that we can unconditionally love each other.

“Judas” I was watching a documentary about Bob Dylan. It’s funny that when he plugged in his guitar and played electric, people yelled that he was a Judas. I didn’t really grow up in the church but I know the history about Judas. I heard that story and thought, “Wow. I wonder what that phrase means colloquially.” It means you betrayed an agreement that we all had.

You betrayed what we upheld to be superior or holy. You turned your back

“I Want It Now” Emily is a playful character.

That’s why I feel comfortable covering the themes that I do. She comes to look with fresh eyes at a few topics. As a person embodying her or portraying her, for me to have that exploration, you get a taste for it. It’s scary and challenging. It is fun to break shit down and rebuild it and make new friends and ask them to play with you. Emily wants everything. She wants today and tomorrow. She wants to have a party and have fun. I changed the Veruca Salt lyric to “I do want to share it” because I want to share it. It’s a bar of chocolate. I’m like the bar of chocolate. I want to make it happen.

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William Control: 6:30 p.m., $12 ADV, 15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

C.W. Stoneking/Miss Macy & the Law Pay Daddys/Hamilton Handshake: 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

An Evening with George Winston: 8 p.m., $25-$40. The Kent Stage.

Lee Harvey Osmond/Istvan Medgyesi: $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken Tour: 7:30 p.m. Akron Civic Theatre.

Moutin Factory Quintet: 7 p.m., $20.

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Preme/Cash & Jaimonee aka Premodonna/Styles P: 8:30 p.m., $20. Grog Shop.

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Sunflower Bean/The Lemon Twigs/ Punch Drunk Tagalogs: The opening track on Sunflower Bean’s full-length debut, Human Ceremony, reveals shades of Pink Floyd in the guitar work alongside singer Julia Cumming’s ethereal vocals.

It’s a nice, wide-open track on an album that invites close listening.

(Smashing Pumpkins influence abounds, as well.) But from there, the band takes the next 10 cuts to explore all manner of styles: a dash of metal here, a pinch of psychedelia over there. Somehow, it works, and the album ends up feeling more cohesive than it probably should.

They’re an exciting band, this trio from Brooklyn, and, through their penchant for variety they’re setting themselves apart from the rest of the pack pretty easily. (Eric Sandy), 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Teenage Fanclub/Sam Evian: Fresh off the release of Here, the band’s first effort since 2010’s Shadows, lauded dream-pop rocker outfit Teenage Fanclub comes to town tonight on a tour that’s considerably lengthier than the jaunts the outfit has taken in recent years. Recorded

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all the live music you should see this week The Scottish power-pop act Teenage Fanclub performs at the Beachland Ballroom.

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in Provence and Glasgow, mixed in Hamburg and mastered in London, the record finds the band operating on all cylinders. A song such as “Thin Air” features a perfect balance of noisy guitars and cooing vocal harmonies that suggest the group’s ‘60s and ‘70s-inspired sound (think the Byrds, the Beach Boys and Big Star). (Emily Votaw), 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Brand New/The Front Bottoms/ Modern Baseball: 7 p.m., $27.50$45. Wolstein Center.

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Brian Charette Trio + Benny Sharoni: 8 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

College Night with DJ Coop/DJ Futuristic/Joyzilla/King Jerm: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop.

Tommy Fleming/The Auld Pitch: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $28 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

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The Summer Set/William Becket & Hudson Thames: 8 p.m., $17.

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Bleached/Beach Slang/Hunny: Like bleach strips hair of its color, Los Angeles garage punk band Bleached strips young adult life of expectation and social burden. On their newest release, 2016’s Welcome the Worms, Jennifer and Jessie Clavin skip the temporary color cover-up and find peace by going rogue. After years as a bottlerocket singles band, propelled by explosive garage-style shows and a handful of intermittent yet solid 7-inches, the sisters sat still long enough to make a fulllength album, Ride Your Heart, in 2013. Zooming in on the lifestyle of twenty-somethings still prone to the whims and wills of adolescence, Bleached discovers that maturity doesn’t have to equal a change in habit. Instead, contentment can be found through the acceptance of human weakness and a realization that the Earth’s rotation is constant through it all. Although Welcome to the Worms presents a polished pop that is new for the band, the girls have not cut loose from their grisly rock roots; in fact, a heavy dose of instability is what the record is all about. (Bethany Kaufman), 9 p.m., $15. Grog Shop.

DJ Kishka: 6 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. Everyn/If Only/Iron Bison/Expect Delays/Coldswell: 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Dominick Farinacci Quintet: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown.

Jazz Jam Session: 11 p.m., Free. Bop Stop.

LoveMuffinPalooza 2016: 9 p.m., $5.

The Euclid Tavern.

Tracey Marie’s Third Friday Concert Series Featuring Rachel Roberts (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

The Modern Electric/By Light We Loom: 8 p.m., $10. Musica.

Sonny Moorman Group (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Mr. Gnome/If These Trees Could Talk/Jivviden/Marcus Alan Ward: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Nappyhead Ent. Presents The Nod Factor: Cleveland vs. Toledo Showcase and MC Battle: 10 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

New Lou Reeds/Mounrning A BLKstar/Murderedman: 9 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. David O’Doherty Quartet: 8 p.m., $15.

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Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy Remembering Keith and The Music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer: 8 p.m., $30-$40. The Kent Stage.

Red/Disciple/Spoken/Random Hero: 6:30 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Silencio Performs the Music of David Lynch: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Tropical Cleveland (in the Supper Club): 9:30 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

VMob: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

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Dean Ween Group/Meat Puppets: 8:30 p.m., $27. Beachland Ballroom.

Deerhunter/Aldous Harding/Jock Gang: Singer-guitarist Bradford Cox noted that Tom Petty was at least one influence in Deerhunter’s latest record, Fading Frontier, and we can totally hear that. Of course, that means that Deerhunter flipped a tamer, less frenetic album on us this time around. It works, because Cox has maintained a self-awareness as a songwriter over these years. From Weird Era Cont, especially, onward, his knack for writing involved tunes that envelope the listener has only become sharper and more nuanced. The result — for now — is an album that maybe skips a lot of the brash and experimental turns that marks earlier albums, all while getting to the point in style. Check out “Living My Life,” which is quite stripped down and which communicates a simple and indelible message. Nice stuff.

(Sandy), 7 p.m., $20. Musica.

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CHRIS HATTONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MUSICAL CIRCUS

Joey Amato & Friend (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Brand X: The Reunion Tour: 8 p.m., $25. Bop Stop.

Paola Costa & Friends: 9 p.m., $5.

The Euclid Tavern.

Brian Culbertson Funk! Tour/ Morgan James: 8 p.m., $20-$40.

Akron Civic Theatre.

Har Mar Superstar/Sweet Spirit: 11 p.m., $12. Musica.

Hillbilly Idol (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

J & L Defer/Sweepyheads: 9 p.m., $8. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band/ Wildlife Soundz: 9 p.m., $10. Grog Shop.

LoveMufďŹ nPalooza 2016 Part 2: 10 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Morgan Mecaskey, Gretchen Pleuss, Hallie Sinclair, Haley Margaret: 8:30 p.m., $10.

Nighttown.

The Spazmatics: 9:30 p.m., $5.

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Sweet Tits Halloween Cover Night: 8 p.m., Free. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Twiztid/Psyche Ward: 6 p.m., $27.

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Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

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Breasfest 16: 3 p.m., $20. Brothers Lounge.

Vince Gill: 8 p.m. Packard Music Hall.

Archie McElrath Quartet: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Esperanza Spalding Presents: EMILYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S D+EVOLUTION: 8 p.m., $35-$50. The Kent Stage.

Stevie Stone/Stuntaway: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

The Summit: Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6: 7:30 p.m., $45-$75.

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Nighttown.

The Tom Katlees/Mimi Arden/Sol Fox: 8 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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Attila, Chelsea Grin, Emmure, Sylar: 6 p.m. House of Blues.

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An Evening with David Ramirez: 8:30 p.m., $14 ADV, $16 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Frankie Cosmos/Big Thief/Small Wood House: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

Magic Dick & Shun Ng/he Slide Brothers: 8 p.m., $20-$25. The Kent Stage.

Abdou Mboup & Mwatabu Okantah/ Vince Robinson/Jazz Poets: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

PWR BTTM/Bellows/Lisa Prank (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

The Security Project/Prog Nation: 8 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom.

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PWR BTTM

By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Ben Hopkins (vocals, guitar) and Liv Bruce (drums) THE BOYS FROM BARD: The band initially formed in upstate New York at Bard College where drummer Liv Bruce and singer-guitarist Ben Hopkins bonded over a mutual interest in performance and drag artistry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were both performing arts majors at Bard,â&#x20AC;? says Hopkins in a recent phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We liked a lot of the same stuff. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we thought PWR BTTM would be a thing we would do beyond performing for our friends. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably why the band existed on the intense premise of being so unabashedly queer.â&#x20AC;?

While at Bard, the duo recorded the demos Cinderella Beauty Shop and Republican National Convention, a split EP with Jawbreaker Reunion.

SHARING IS CARING: On the early releases, Hopkins plays guitar and sings, and Bruce plays drums.

Since then, the two have begun to share vocal and songwriting duties and have also started to trade off instruments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote a lot of the songs on the EPs,â&#x20AC;? says Hopkins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we decided to keep working on the band after graduating, I asked Liv about writing songs and wanted him to write more songs. The ďŹ rst song he brought to the table was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I Wanna Boi.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

GETTING UGLY: In August of 2014, the band started writing songs for last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ugly Cherries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if we thought we were going in a particular direction sonically,â&#x20AC;? says Hopkins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a two-piece band, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re deďŹ ned by our limitations. A lot of our sound came by virtue of that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like we work toward a sound. We just do what we think sounds good.â&#x20AC;?

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Rolling Stone, MTV, and Spin praised the album upon its release. The band is currently in the studio putting the ďŹ nal touches on an LP that it will release next year via Polyvinyl Records.

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Ramshackle tunes such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;ShortLived Nightmareâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dairy Queenâ&#x20AC;? feature snotty vocals and bursts of noisy guitars while the albumclosing ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;House in Virginiaâ&#x20AC;? features quivering vocals that show off the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sensitive side. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inďŹ&#x201A;uenced by so many different things,â&#x20AC;? says Bruce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We both have a history with musical theater in one way or another, Ben more so than I. We were both steeped in that water. That totally informed our songwriting sensibilities. A term that I never knew about in musical theater but learned about recently is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want ...â&#x20AC;&#x2122; song. It helps tell a story. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know it was a convention but in hindsight, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I Wanna a Boiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is the deďŹ nitive â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want ...â&#x20AC;&#x2122; song.â&#x20AC;? He adds that they both had this connection to music made by queer artists when they were kids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember when I heard Cher for the ďŹ rst time as a child,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I heard â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Believeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as a kid. I said to my mom, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Who is this guy? I love his voice.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I mis-gendered Cher when I was a kid. We both have this early love for queer things in various shapes and forms.â&#x20AC;?

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By Eric Sandy WE CAUGHT UP WITH LOCAL musician Adam Rich earlier this year, when he began working on his upcoming album. After writing a song about seeing First Light play in Cleveland 24 years ago, he ended up getting most of that band to perform on the record â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the culmination of a neat musical narrative.

Rich is also the guy behind LoveMufďŹ nPalooza, an annual music festival that supports the work of The Gathering Place, a programming and service center for those whose lives have been touched by cancer. LoveMufďŹ nPalooza takes place this weekend.

As a bassist for the past 20 years, Rich has maintained a close connection to Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music scene. (Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s switched back to guitar lately). This year, in fact, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assembled his own band to perform at the fest (featuring drummer Kurt Bernardo, vocalist and bassist Jerry Principe and vocalist and guitarist James Daymond Carter); theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be throwing down some songs from Richâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impending album, Sunshine & Puppies. Beyond that, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gathered a nice variety of local bands to ďŹ ll out the bill and dish out some weekend entertainment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try not to have the same band play two years in a row,â&#x20AC;? Rich says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year, most of the lineup are all bands Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had on before.

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8 p.m. Oct. 21 at Happy Dog at Euclid Tavern, 11625 Euclid Ave. Bands and performers: XLT 1000, Dave Smeltz, Jah Messengers, Outlaws I & I. 9 p.m. Oct. 22 at Happy Dog, 5801 Detroit Ave. Bands and performers: Flowers In Flames, Brave Bones, Ottawa.

Rich tells Scene that admission will most likely be $5 each night, and 100-percent of ticket and rafďŹ&#x201A;e proceeds will beneďŹ t The Gathering Place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been into First Light since I was 18 and got to know the guys personally over the years,â&#x20AC;? Rich says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get Outlaws I & I, which includes four former First Light members, on the same bill with longtime bands Jah Messengers and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Papaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dave Smeltz of I-Tal, along with my one-off band, is something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wanted for a long time.â&#x20AC;?

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SAVAGE LOVE THE TRUMP TALK

By Dan Savage Dear Dan, Waiting to pay for my groceries at the market this evening, this guy, stinking of booze, says to my 9-yearold daughter, “Sweetheart, can you put the divider thing there for me?”

First, why is some leering grown man calling my child “sweetheart”? I move closer to my daughter; he then reaches his hand over me and wraps his hand around her arm, saying, “Now, you be nice to your Mommy, sweetie.” I pluck his hand off. “Do not touch my child,” I say. My other hand is pressed against my daughter’s ribs, and I can feel her heart POUNDING. “You have a beautiful daughter,” he says. The cashier, whom we know, a guy, looks at me, eyebrows up. I roll my eyes. So pissed. We leave. “I hated that man,” my daughter says once we get in the car. “He smelled bad, I wanted to hit him, if anyone ever does that to me again I’m going to scream.” Here we effing go: “Sometimes you have to be hypervigilant,” I tell my daughter, “because some gross men out there feel they are entitled to touch us.” And then I share my story: “When I was a little girl …” I don’t even remember the first time it happened to me. I don’t remember the last time some pervert rubbed up against me. But that’s what you have to deal with when you are a girl. We have to learn to brush this shit off, to make sure that this endless assault doesn’t take your pride, your confidence, or your sense of peace as you walk through this world.

We should call this the “Trump Talk.” The depressing conversation that every parent needs to have with their little girl about revolting, predatory, entitled men. The Trump Talk.

— Mother And Daughter Discuss Enraging Realities I’m sorry about what was done to your daughter by that entitled asshole at the grocery store — but I’m glad you were there with her when it happened.

The author Kelly Oxford, in response to Donald Trump’s horrific comments about sexually assaulting women, called on women to tweet about their first assaults under the hashtag #notokay. Oxford’s post went viral — more than a million women responded — and reading through the seemingly endless thread, I was struck by how many women were alone the first time they were assaulted.

A lot of women were your daughter’s age the first time it happened to them, MADDER. Tragically, many assumed that they had done something wrong, that they had invited this on themselves somehow, and most didn’t go to their parents for fear of getting into trouble.

And when it inevitably happened again, some became convinced they were indeed to blame, because they thought it wasn’t happening to anyone else, just them.

Regarding your suggestion, MADDER, I’ve received roughly 10 million emails begging me to do for Donald Trump what I did for Rick Santorum. People even sent in suggestions: trump is the streak of shit a large turd sometimes leaves on the bottom of the toilet bowl; trump is the snot that sometimes runs out of your nose when you’re giving a blowjob. The suggested new meanings all struck me as trivial and snarky — and I don’t think there’s anything trivial about the racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and violence that Trump has mainstreamed, and I’m not inclined to snark about it.

And it frankly didn’t seem possible to make Donald Trump’s name any more revolting than he already has. If I may paraphrase the amazing letter the New York Times sent to Trump after he demanded they retract a story about the women he’s assaulted: Nothing I could say in my sex column could even slightly elevate the feelings of disgust decent people experience whenever they hear his name. Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already redefined his last name.

But then your email arrived, and I set aside the column I was working on to rush your idea into print. Because your suggestion is just as fitting and apt as the “frothy mixture” definition of santorum.

It’s not trivial and it’s not snarky.

It has gravitas, MADDER, and here’s hoping “Trump Talk” isn’t just widely adopted, but universally practiced. Because no little girl who gets groped on a bus or in a grocery store or on a subway or in a classroom should ever have to wonder if she did something wrong.

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